Whats worse, OpenAI feels like leaning into the farcical fad despite its previous reservations.

Art styles professional animators put years of work into mastering.

Let me just say every morning I used to see a friend whos disabled.

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He would walk up to me.

One legs turned outward, so its hard for him to walk.

Even a high-five is hard for him.

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His stiff hand and mine touch.

I think of him, and cant say I like this, Miyazaki said.

Whoever made it gives no thought to pain.

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Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color.

This 4-second clip (The Wind Rises) took one animator 15 months to do.

Should Ghibli and Miyazaki wish to pursue legal action against OpenAI and ChatGPT, well bring the popcorn.

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